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Semiurge has sent me this picture, in order that I might explain it to him, "if [I'm] so great." You see, we have this humorous rapport where I write droning articles about...
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Automating Dan's adaption of religion in Crusader Kings, with some tweaks, to randomly generate faiths for fantasy settings. Each faith will have several "heresies", a broad...
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Semiurge (which is the name of a blogger, not just the feeling you get when your cousin eats a banana) has sent me this picture, in order that I might explain it to...
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Semiurge has sent me this picture, in order that I might explain it to him. (Note the two figures in the bottom-right. This warrior is big.)When the Titanomachy came, when...
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Semiurge has sent me this picture, in order that I might explain it to him. A Request UnseenYou hear a voice in crowded spaces,tinged tenebral with lack of light.It asks for "a...
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Nickorish of SteppedOnAD4 asked me to write a bit about how it is that eight hours of rest can heal a good deal of hit points in most versions of GLoG.It reminds players that...
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"Realm spells" are Birthright-style spells that can affect a large area, like summoning a fortress or calling down a plague. Starting equipment taken from Vayra’s microclass...
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These are -Fictional in the sense that I made them up. No guarantee that others have not had the same idea before.-Modern in that they are set in the real, contemporary world...
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We put monsters in games because they are cool. They excite the imagination and our visceral reactions to viscera and reaching tendrils. But it can be difficult to mesh the...
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Godparents Expanded from my previous post here. Since it is likely only one or two godparents would be needed in even a long campaign, and since the original article...
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Pursuant to my interest in heraldry, I sometimes wonder how I could turn Spwacks's marvelous tables to the task of blazonry. This is my current attempt, though it does not do...
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These are the sorts of things I try to combine when running my own games, and the sorts of things I love to see as a player. You can see a significant throughline-- solving a...Linked by the ring
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I've been working on this one for a while. It's a haunted palace nestled in a remote mountainous retreat, in the heart of Mesomergos. I based much of the floorplan on the...
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(note: not serious, discord nonsense)Out of love for the truth and from desire to elucidate it, I, Phlox, master of art and spurious theology, and frequent blogger of Whose...
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Okay, here's what I managed to find in my neighborhood. (See here, here, here, here, and here.)1. The ChrioniadAn ancient epic in the Homeric style, dated to shortly after the...
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(Note: this is an expansion on notes by our beloved Deus. The formatting, idea, and much of the text is theirs. Other ideas were contributed to them by the likes of Vayra,...
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There is a classic dungeoneering set-up that is "dungeon-forward." In such games, the party doesn't spend too much time outside of the dungeon that the players have come...Linked by the ring
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To round out GLoG week, here is a class emulating those intrepid heroes and heroines who braved the ever-changing hallways of the dungeon master Tregard in British 80's show...
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I was dared by nyandromeda to "write a short faction that you would find in the irish fairy world," and by gum, I am bound by dares. I don't really understant all the...
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the Pale LobsterA relative dreamt, as a child, anxious and eager, that something came out of the ground outside her rural home. It was by the garden, writhing like a dying...
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This is a mantra in the sense of being something to meditate on.In this modern and enlightened age, many of us in roleplaying games attempt to be deliberate to do right, or at...
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Looking for the perfect monster? Hoping to thumb through an interesting game book? Your old-fashioned monster manual getting you no attention from the ladies? I've catalogued...
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Table of ContentsPreface: SolemnityThe Structure of HellPlayer CharactersKinds: the El Doradans, the Salamanders, and the DamnedSpecial Classes: the Mine-Rowdy, the...
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Wherever those who raid dungeons congregate, rumors are shared. Some speak of endless byways under the earth, connecting one madman's folly to another, of secret meetings held...
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Having completed the prompts a little early, I provide for your perusal a link to all 31 GLoGtober posts. I will also rate the articles on a scale of 1 to 3, indicating how...
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In accordance with the post-a-day challenge by SunderedWorldDM, whose dreams bore the Orbseeker and whose deeds send the world shuddering. Today, I return to a Bad Meat...
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In accordance with the post-a-day challenge by SunderedWorldDM, whose dreams bore the Orbseeker and whose deeds send the world shuddering.d10 lifechanging mealsSalted...
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In accordance with the post-a-day challenge by SunderedWorldDM, whose dreams bore the Orbseeker and whose deeds send the world shuddering.So your players have gotten their...
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In accordance with the post-a-day challenge by SunderedWorldDM, whose dreams bore the Orbseeker and whose deeds send the world shuddering. I feel foolish for not checking the...
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In accordance with the post-a-day challenge by SunderedWorldDM, whose dreams bore the Orbseeker and whose deeds send the world shuddering. I open with some suggestions for...